Honorary alumna Deen Day Sanders

Honorary alumna Deen Day Sanders was awarded the Outstanding Alumna Award at the annual Women's Leadership Conference at Georgia Tech in November.

The student-run conference, sponsored by Tech's Women's Resource Center, honored Sanders along with outstanding students, faculty and staff.

Mary Lynn Realff, one of the co-directors of the Center for the Study of Women, Science and Technology, was selected as Outstanding Faculty Member; Amy Stalzer, assistant director of Success Programs at Georgia Tech and director of FASET Orientation, was voted Outstanding Staff Member; Christina Robinson-Scherrer, IE 99, a fifth-year doctoral student in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, was named Outstanding Graduate Student; and Stefanie Lynn Belcher, a fourth-year materials science and engineering student, was named Outstanding Undergraduate Student.

Sanders, who received an honorary degree from Tech in 1980, is chair of the board for Cecil B. Day Investment Co. and is vice chair of the Cecil B. Day Foundation.

In addition to philanthropic contributions that have funded scholarships and endowments at Georgia Tech and other universities in Georgia and Florida, Sanders founded the Cecil B. Day Laboratory for Neuromuscular Research at Massachusetts General Hospital to research treatments for muscular dystrophy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Two of Sanders' sons suffer from a rare form of muscular dystrophy.

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